Airport's tree reports
The first two documents below were only revealed as a result of court proceedings. They show that the original recommendations (for removal of deadwood and limbs over path and property) were changed to felling of 2/3 trees in the subsequent report and to 3/3 fellings in the one after that (both of which were submitted with the application). No evidence for anything to do with the condition of the trees having changed between the 1st and subsequent reports appears to exist.
Same assessment - 3 different recommendations.
Who persuaded the tree surgeon to change their recommendations, how and why?
Letter from airport 18 February.pdfHere the letter saying that the first set of recommendations (in the table) were made after the February storms.
Withdrawn table 18th Feb..pdf1st version. The recommendations for T119, T120 and T124 do not mention felling. Note that the limb failure on T119 is referred to so had already happened.
2nd Reccommendations table.pdf2nd version of recommendations. Note felling recommended for T119 and T124 - not T120.
3rd Recommendation Table.pdf3rd version of recommendations. This is the one that the application form was based on.
Note the 'observations' are the same as in version 2.